Can-salting machine.



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PATENTED JAN. 27, 1903.

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CAN SALTING MACHINE.

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No. 718,987. PATENTED JAN. 27, 1903. W. E. DEMENT.

CAN SALTING MACHINE.

APPLICATION FILED FEB. 18, 1902. 7 N0 MODEL. 3 SHEETS-SHEET 3.

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CAN SALTlNG MACHINE.

SPEOIEFIGATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 718,987, dated January 27, 1903. Application filed February 18, 1902. Serial No. 94,690. (No model.)

To all whom it may OOH/ 61 In the embodiment of my invention I pro- Be it known that I, NALLAOEE. DEMENT, vide a revoluble carrier 1, the axle 2 of which a citizen of the United States, residing at is horizontally disposed and is mounted in Blaine, in the county of \Vhatcom and State suitable bearings 3 in a suitable supporting- 5 of lVashington, have invented a new and useframe 4. The revoluble carrier is provided ful Can-Salting Machine, of which the followwith outwardly-projecting peripheral arms 5, ing is a specification. each of which in the embodiment of my in- My invention is an improved machine for vention here shown is substantially V-shaped depositing measured quantities of saltin cans and is formed of a single bar of metal bent IO prior to the packing of the cans with fish or as shown in Fig. 5. The opposing sides of other substances to be seasoned by the salt; the proximate carrier-arms 5 are parallel with and it consists in the peculiar construction each other, and the effect of the said arms, and combination of devices hereinafter fully which are disposed about midway between set forth and claimed. the sides of the revolulole carrier on the per5 The object of my invention is to provide an riphery thereof, is to provide the said carrier improved machine for automatically depositwith peripheral carrier-openings of a size ing the seasoning-salt in cans just prior to adapted to receive the cans. The said revothe packing of the latter with fish or other luble carrier 1 is provided on one side with a material, which salting-machine may be opseries of cam-teeth 6, which may be either of 20 erated while the process of packing the cans the form here shown or of any other suitable is being carried out, thus rendering it unform. Anysuitable means may be employed necessary to depositthe seasoning-salt in a for rotating the revoluble carrier. I here large number of cans prior to the packing of show a power-pulley 7 on the axle-shaft 2 for the latter, as is now the case, and obviating this purpose.

25 the rusting of the cans caused by the pres- Near one end of the frame 4E. at one side ence of the salt therein for some hours prior thereof, is secured a feed trough or chute 8, to the packing and sealing of the cans. adapted to contain a number of cans and to In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is deliver them by gravity to the revoluble cara perspective view of a can-salting machine rier, and the discharge end of the said feed- 30 embodying my improvements. Fig. 2 is a chute is disposed opposite one side of the horizontal sectional view of the same, taken revoluble carrier, so that as the arms of the on a plane intersecting the relatively fixed latter successively pass the discharge end of guides between which the carrier rotates, said feed-chute the cans are successively fed v but not intersecting the carrier. Fig. 3 is a by the said feed-chute into the spaces or open- 35 vertical transverse central sectional view of ings on the periphery of the carrier between the same. Fig. 4 is a detail transverse secthe peripheral arms 5 thereof. On the oppotional view of the same, taken on a plane insite side of the carrier is a discharge-chute 9, tersecting the discharge-chute. Fig; 5 is a, which is also secured to the frame 4 and the detail perspective view of one of the periphinner end of which is disposed opposite the 0 eral carrier-arms. Fig. 6 is a similar view of plane of revolution of the carrier-arms 5, so o one of the cams with which the revoluble carthat the cans carried by the said carrier are rier is provided forimparting oscillatory mosuccessively disposed opposite the inner end tion to the arm whichoperates the salt-dropof said discharge-chute. The frame 4 is proping slide. Fig. 7 is a detail perspective vided with guide-plates 10 11, which are fixed 45 View of the mechanism for dropping charges thereto and are disposed above the axial cenof salt into the cans. Fig; 8 is a detail per- 'ter of the revoluble carrier. The guideplate spective view of the oscillating stirrer. Fig. 10 extends from a point above the discharge 9 is a detail sectional view taken on a plane end of the feed-chute to apoint opposite the intersecting the neck of the hopper, the inner end of the discharge-chute, and the 50 stirrer, and the slide. guide-plate 11 extends from a point opposite 10o "above the inner end of the discharge-chute.

The said guide-plates are on opposite sides of the carrier and serve to retain the cans in the spaces between the peripheral arms on the upper side of the carrier.

A fixed cam 12 is disposed opposite the inner end of the discharge-chute and serves to successively displace the cans laterally frombetween the peripheral arms of the revoluble carrier as the cans reach a point opposite the inner end of the discharge-chute, so that the cans are caused by the said cam to roll from the carrier onto the inner upper end of the discharge-trough, the cans successively roliing down the said discharge-trough by gravity.

A mechanism for dropping measured quantities of salt into the cans in succession as the latter are disposed on the upper side of the carrier by the rotation thereof is secured on the frame above the axial center of the revoluble carrier. In the embodiment of my invention here shown this salt-dropping mechanism comprises a hopper 13, a slide 14, and means to reciprocate the slide.

The slide operates in a groove in the upper side of a bar 15, that extends transversely across the upper side of the frame at the center thereof, and said bar has an opening 15 with which at each stroke of the slide in one direction an opening 17 in said slide registers. Said opening 17 is of a size to contain enough salt to season the contents of a single can. At the outer end of the stroke of the slide the opening 17-is below the center of the hopper and becomes filled with a charge of salt, as will be understood.

The hopper is here shown as funnel-shaped, but may be of any other suitable form, and is provided with a cylindrical neck 24:, which has a lateral slot 25 in one side. In the neck of the hopper is fitted an oscillating sleeve 26 of vertical cylindrical form, which is provided with inwardly-projecting stirrers 27 and with upwardly-projecting stirrers 28. An operating-arm 29 projects radially from the sleeve and operates in the slot 25. A spring 30 acts against said arm to keep the latter normally at one end of said slot. In the embodiment of my invention here shown the spring 30 is a coil-spring and has its ends connected to the arm 29 and the bar 15, respectively.

A rock-shaft 18 is vertically disposed and journaled in suitable bearings 19 on one side of the frame 4. Said rock-shaft has an operating-arm 20 at its upper end and is further provided with a tappet-arm 21., which carries a tappet 22, here shown as an antifrictionroller, which engages the cam-teeth 6 on one side of the revoluble carrier. A spring 23, here shown as a coiled extensile spring, is connected to the bar 15 and the operatingarm 20 and coacts with the tappet and the cam teeth of the carrier'to impart reciprocating motion to the salt-dropping slide, as will be understood.

one side of the slide.

An arm 31 is attached to and extends on Said arm has a tappet 32 in the path of and adapted to engage arm 29 of the oscillating stirrer element 24, here shown, as before described, as a cylindrical neck having inwardly and upwardly projecting stirrers. The end of the arm 31, which rides over the arm 29, is inclined upwardly to form a cam 33. A fixed cam 34 projects from the upper side of the bar 15.

On the instroke of the slide-that being the stroke which carries the opening 17 from above the opening 15 to a point under the center of the hopper-the tappet 32 engages the arm 29 and moves the latter, together with the oscillating stirrerelement,in one direction through a partial revolution againstthe tension of the spring 30. As the opening 17 is brought under the neck of the hopper the cam 33 engages the cam 34, thereby raising the tappet 32, so that the same disengages the arm 29, whereupon the spring 30 suddenly moves the oscillating stirring element in the reverse direction and causes the arm 29 to strike against one end of the slot 25 so forcibly as to jar the stirring element and the hopper. The action of the stirring element and the jar thus imparted thereto cause the salt to be stirred in the neck of the hopper and to be jarred and dislodged therefrom and insure the filling of the opening 17 with a charge of salt, thus counteracting the tendency of the saltwhen damp to clogin the neck of the hopper.

Having thus described my invention, 1

1. In a lnachino of the class described, the combination ofa dropping mechanism, a revoluble carrier under the dropping mechanism, said carrier having a horizontal axis and peripheral means to separately engage and carry the cans, a chute to feedthe cans successively to the revoluble carrier at one side thereof and a discharge-chute having its inner end disposed opposite the opposite side of the revoluble carrier, substantially as described.

2. In a machine of the class described, the combination of a dropping mechanism, a revoluble carrier under the droppingmechanism, said carrier having a horizontal axis and peripheral means to separately engage and carry the cans, a chute to feed the cans to the revoluble carrier at one side thereof, a discharge-chute having its inner end disposed opposite the opposite side of the revoluble carrier, and fixed guides on opposite sides and extending above the periphery of the carrier between the said chutes to retain the cans in engagement with the revoluble carrier while passing from the feed to the discharge chute, substantially as described.

3. The combination of a dropping mechanism, a revoluble carrier under the dropping mechanism, said carrier having a horizontal axis and peripheral means to separately engage and carry the cans, a chute to feed the cans to the revoluble carrier at one side thereof, a discharge-chute having its inner end disposed opposite the opposite side of the revoluble carrier, fixed guides on opposite sides and extending above the periphery ot' the carrier between the said chutes, for the purpose set forth, and a fixed ejector opposite the inner end of the di chargech ute to successively displace the cans from the carrier and cause them to roll upon the discharge-chute, substantially as described.

4:. In a machine of the class described, the combination with a dropping mechanism, including a movable element, of a revoluble carrier, means to feed cans thereto and discharge them therefrom, an oscillating element connected to the movable element of the dropping mechanism and connections between said oscillating element and the revoluble can-carrier, to actuate said oscillating element and thereby impart motion to the movable element of the dropping mechanism, substantially as described.

5. In a machine of the class described, the combination with a hopper, of a movable element to discharge material therefrom, a revoluble carrier having cam-teeth, means to feed cans to the said revoluble carrier, means to discharge cans therefrom, and a rock-shaft having a tappet-arm operated by the camteeth of the carrier, said rock-shaft being further provided with an operating-arm connected to the movable element of the drop ping mechanism, to actuate said movable element, substantially as described.

6. The combination of a hopper, a stirring element movable alternately in opposite directions, a spring to move the latterin one direction, means to drop charges of material from the hopper, means to move the stirring element against the tension of the'spring, and means to release the stirring element from the said moving element,for the purpose set forth, substantially as described.

7. The combination of a hopper, an oscillating stirrer having an operating-arm, a spring to move the stirrer in one direction, a reciprocating slide, a tappet carried thereby to engage and move the operating-arm and hence the stirrer, in one direction, and means to disengage said tappet from said arm, substantially as described.

8. The combination of a hopper, a springpressed stirrer, a spring-pressed discharge element, means to move the latter in one direction against the tension of its spring, and a connection between the discharge element and the stirrer to move the latter against the tension of its spring with the discharge element, and to release it therefrom prior to the completion of the movement of the discharge element, substantially as described.

9. The combination of a revoluble can-carrier having a horizontal axis and peripheral means to separately engage and carry the cans, means, on one side of the carrier to feed cans thereto, a discharge-chute having its inner end disposed opposite the opposite side of the revoluble carrier, and a fixed ejector opposite the inner end of the discharge-chute to successively displace the cans from the car rier and cause them to roll upon the dischargechute, substantially as described.

10. The combination with means for feeding material to cans, of a revoluble can-carrier arranged under the feeding means and having a horizontal axis and peripheral means to separately engage and carry the cans, means to successively feed cans to one side of the carrier and an ejector to successively displace the cans from the opposite side of the carrier in a direction lateral to the plane of movement of said carrier, substantially as described.

11. In combination, means for feeding material to cans,a revoluble can-carrier arranged under said feeding means and having a horizontal axis and peripheral means to separately engage and carry the cans, a can-feeding means for presenting cans to one side of the carrier, and means at the opposite side of said carrier for effecting a lateral gravity discharge of said cans.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing as my own I have hereto affixed my signature in the presence of two witnesses.

WALLACE E. DEMENT.

Witnesses:

WM. J. GILLESPIE, OsWALD J. FRANZKE. 

